Musicals & Cast Recordings

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema it's voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway...

With charisma, outsized singing and a fast horse, Al Jolson rides home a winner in this opened-up screen version of one of his biggest stage hits. The dynamic entertainer puts on blackface makeup to portray likable Gus, a stableman-turned-jockey who...

Let other coeds wait tables or shelve library books. Burlesque queen Hot-Garters Gertie is working her way through college one article of clothing at a time! Virginia Mayo and Ronald Reagan headline this rollicking campus musical comedy based on the...

There's big ballyhoo on Broadway: Catherine Terris is back, thinking a Great White Way smasheroo will spark her declining movie career. The musical she'll headline is a razzle-dazzler of warbling and wooing called Breakfast in Bed. An eager, talented...

Jean Stapleton and Art Carney head an all-star cast in this Emmy½-winning* adaption of Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. When it comes to eccentric behavior, the Sycamores wrote the book. Grandpa (Art Carney) doesn't believe...

The intertwined lives of the three musical legends form a Song of Love a sumptuously produced and skillfully played biopic set to 11 musical pieces that include Schumann's Arabeske Brahms' Lullaby and the Mephisto Waltz of Franz Liszt.

Music, romance and comedy abound in this classic double feature. First up is the Mayor of 44th Street (George Murphy, Anne Shirley. 1942/86 min.) featuring the sounds of Freddy Martin and his Orchestra, as a former U.S. Senator-turned-talent agent tries...

Jeanette MacDonald portrays Nina Maria, who sings, dances and spies for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Early in the story, Nina is eager to discourage an amorous French officer, so she feigns interest in Don Diego (Allan Jones). Now, she has a bigger...

Jeanette MacDonald, having just been named "Queen of the Movies" by 22 million filmgoers in a 1939 New York Daily News opinion survey, stars in this elegant and alluring, fun-filled musical. Costarring leading man Lew Ayres, it's a rich and fitting...

From waitress to Broadway star! In her first of only three films 1920s Broadway sensation Marilyn Miller recreates one of her greatest stage hits in Sally a lavish heart-on-it's-sleeve Cinderella story (punctuated with some color sequences).

He's in the army now! Heartthrob Renaldo Rossano (Mario Lanza) charismatic star of the New York Grand Opera is drafted and music fans everywhere mourn. Lanza's fourth film finds the tenor in top form.

Nelson Eddy (Rose Marie) stars as a Czarist prince who falls in love with a cafe singer in the days just before the Russian Revolution in this gorgeous period musical. Prince Peter (Eddy) masquerades as a poor worker to woo Lydia Marakov (Massey) and...